Jim Kinsey
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Thanks for all your input. I can now approach my partners and tell them we are doing everything right on our end but our broadcast in being super duper compressed. It is unfortunate for sure. I am excited at an all HD show sometime next year although still compressed it should look leaps and bounds better than SD.
JK
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I have been sending out our shows file based DVCPRo 50 anamorphic. Then the show get ingested into a FCP timeline and output SDI to beta sp I believe letter-boxed. The network gets it then encodes it to MPEG 2 for satellite distribution. We are just repurposing our SD footage as all our acquisition now is Solid state PANNY P2 and EX1 SXS. So no worries for our future stuff. So there is no other step I could take to make it any cleaner than outputting to digibeta?
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Thanks. I have noticed other SD broadcasts that seem to be shot and edited in DV look cleaner. Quite a bit of the original footage was shot with a Canon XL2 anamorphic 30P ( frame mode ). Is there any reason that going to 480i would be any better?
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I mean 8 bit YUV. Sorry. Will a KONA 3 and a good deck capable of Inputing/outputting the original footage help?
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Cal- Digit has the fix. Go to their website and tech support for updates and you can fix it by following the instructions.
JK
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They are working on it and should have a patch this week. I am playing back footage fine but when I go to render FCP 6.0.2 the program hangs and I have to do a hard shutdown. The trick is to only render tiny bits at a time and hit the escape key save and option+r in tiny amounts and save until you are very close to the render being complete…. this doesn’t give it time to hang on what Cal digit calls a bad kernal with the new leopard install. This is working for me on the render hangs….
Jim Kinsey
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Well I spoke with the folks at cal digit as I have an HD pro raid 4TB model and they are working feverishly to fix a kernal that their raid hangs on in the new leopard update. So when I go to render the caldigit raid hangs half way through or sometimes at 95 or 98% and FCP feezes and will not force quit. after a hard shutdown….. The only fix I have found to help out is when you use the shortcut option+r just render small bits at a time by hitting escape after maybe 10% and then do that again and again until it has just a small amount left then you can let it finish rendering. This seems to be working as a work around.
With that being said CAl digit informs me they will have a patch on their site this week to fix the problem.
Jim Kinsey
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So I trashed the preferences files then deleted the render files and re-rendered. It seemed to work for now. So the real test will come today while I start round 2 with the remainder of shows to print to tape. Thanks for all your input. I know better than to update my machine in the middle of 13 original episodes for TV. I will call CAl digit today and find out if their HDpro needs an update with leopards latest installment.
Jim Kinsey
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Thanks I will try that. Man 30 hard shut downs today. When I force quit FCP it still stays open in the doc and I can not restart or shutdown normally so my only option is to hold down the power button until everything powers down… Really fried right now… For a second I was having PC flashbacks.
Jim Kinsey
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It is true. I got it straight from a Sony reps mouth. It is a issue they are working on and may have a fix for it soon. So for now shoot your scenes and when not in use take the battery off and put back on when your ready to shoot again. I have been doing this with my panasonic hvx200 with the battery tab connection issue. So its routine for me anyway. Hope this helps.
JK